Is This For Real? MOTUC appearing at Wal-Mart... [No b/s/t Outside Marketplace]

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I was just at Ollie's and they have TONS of the Matty 12" Lex Luthor and 12" General Zod. Sadly, they already sold out of the 12" Superman figures. They were marked $29.99, but were on sale for 40% Off making them only $17.99! Wish they would get some MOTU Classics in stock.

Hey everyone - please treat each other with respect and enough with the back and forth. I've just expunged quite a few posts because it was going nowhere fast. So let's carry on with the topic at hand...

Just to throw my 2 cents in, I don't fault matty for selling these figures at the one Walmart. They did not break any promises of going to retail. It was at one small walmart store close by the outlet. Also almost every single Roboto is cracking and defective so it would not be good to keep selling a defective product on matty to collectors. Better to give a steep discount to walmart and get him out of the warehouse and let them deal with returns. I have no problem with Gygor and personally like him, but i don't think he was a big seller!

And just to agree with other posters, the quantities are probably so small that it would not be worth offering up on the website without a 1 second sell out. Also warehouse space costs money, so a quick sellout is always in a companies best interest!

Whatever the situation is, Testing, Hoax, or just plain cleaning out Matty warehouse; this brings back memories. Seeing He-Man on shelf in a Walmart was some good time. I miss the hunt.

Really? And here I was just thinking about how we've reached the tenth anniversary of the whole Smash Blade/Spin Blade debacle. You might be the only one on these boards who misses sifting through those figures.

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Really? And here I was just thinking about how we've reached the tenth anniversary of the whole Smash Blade/Spin Blade debacle. You might be the only one on these boards who misses sifting through those figures.

This is true, but how about back in the 80's when the figures were only shipped one figure in a case. If one figure sells out they order another case. They should return to that model

Took us a few days to get to the bottom of this one. Bottom line is these items were not sold to WMT. They appear to be at only one single location and this WMT aquired them on the secondary market from a third party. Mattel did not set up this end cap or this promotion. There are no plans for MOTUC to be distributed at retail at this time. Maybe the toy aisle manager is a big MOTU fan. Not really sure, but this is not a Mattel program. That i can confirm.

They could have placed as many subs as they wanted. Heck I could place multiple orders to get 100 subs if I wanted. They prob got stuck with a bunch of unwanted stuff. It is odd that wal-mart would buy product from small merchants like that.